Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EXjrH-0004FB-DH for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:30:43 -0800 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.200]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EXjrC-0004F2-RF for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:30:43 -0800 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i24so249849wra for ; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:30:37 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=o++7oQc8XOffXlBvKuUG/XUfeN9Zk90HIRZ1EqyIq5zOUAdJNUOtRAKg6Zj20bXwONVnXZ4y1ycx+DddRgFN8l2CShShczwql2oukCivXO1z5PsuGMVGKAF1+ghTCSaWygv6Qim4AQhxJwZbJ48YALLq4uCDbfh6nOBfQS143HI= Received: by 10.54.16.57 with SMTP id 57mr802718wrp; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:30:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.66.3 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 10:30:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <925d17560511031030w22ff8b06j198180d33e09637a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 15:30:37 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Llamb=EDas?= To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: How 'natural' a language? In-Reply-To: <26506d300511030415j48a05aefm@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <26506d300511030415j48a05aefm@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 2472 X-Approved-By: jjllambias@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jjllambias@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners Content-Length: 647 On 11/3/05, Thomas White wrote: > > Forgive the nature of this question, but I'm sure I can't be the only > one to have thought of it: How 'natural' a language is lojban if there > are no swear words or insults? The general purpose swear word is {mabla}, and you can combine it with other things to give it more flavour. For insulting people, your creativity is the limit. You can call them bebna, or juxre, or tolmle, or tcica, or palci, or whatever you think they won't like being described as. You can also use attitudinals like {oi}, {oi sai}, {oi le'o}, {o'onai}, etc to vent your feelings. mu'o mi'e xorxes